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Exploring the Topic Fearless Forecasts

Scott Burns Dec 28, 2007

As a few of you are aware 2007 is about to end You may be outnumbered you may be rare but that makes it easier for me to find you All I have to do is look for people who don’t have white wires hanging from their ears The others the people with the wires will never know They…

Scott Burns Jan 01, 2006

Trust me 2006 will bring the usual run of surprises Here are my Fearless Forecasts intuited from the usual gestalt of deadly accurate media sources "Where's our cake " The question will begin at an obscure shareholders' meeting in New Jersey but will join "Where's the beef " in history It…

Scott Burns Dec 28, 2012

Spending money gets easier by the minute. Today, thanks to automatic bill pay and other innovations, our entire income (or more) can be spent before we know it. And we don’t have to lift a finger. Who would have thought that technology could take us this far?
But more is yet to come. Here are my…

Scott Burns Jan 09, 2009

In case you hadn’t noticed the fortune tellers and trend spotters are falling behind This is a problem Life is moving so fast they just can’t keep up That’s not good news for you and me because we won’t have any trendy words for what we are experiencing
I learned this in October when I saw…

Scott Burns Dec 30, 2006

It's that time again It's time to stare into the future's blank face and declare what it holds It's time for my Fearless Forecasts A WOMAN WILL BE ELECTED PRESIDENT IN 2008 Two friends learned this while visiting Ted Turner's Vermejo Park Ranch in northern New Mexico While there they…

Scott Burns Jan 02, 2005

Time marches on It's another day and another dollar unless of course you're paying in euros If you are paying in euros I don't feel sorry for you at all It means you're wandering the land of the 35 hour workweek guaranteed employment and slow food It also means you're in a place even…

Scott Burns Dec 29, 2002

Recovery is on the way It won't come from any of that silly stuff like corporate investment or a safer world Its roots will be found in what we Americans do like no one else in the world Consume Here are my Fearless Forecasts for 2003 • Congress Will Pass A Broad Easing of Personal…

Scott Burns Jan 11, 2017

“Want to prepare yourself for the fully exposed luge ride of 2016?” Anyone who could write these words at the close of 2015 must have had a special window to the future, no? But while some of my Fearless Forecasts have been spot on over the years, even I was unable to predict the absurdity that…

Scott Burns Dec 31, 2000

Sad to say there are readers out there who don't take my annual Fearless Forecasts seriously Well just to prove the incredible prescience of this annual list you should know that my first forecast came true before this went to print
The Presidential election of 2000 will be over no later than…

Scott Burns Dec 26, 2014

Yes, folks, it’s Captain Egregious, ready to step confidently into the future because I already know it. Here are my Fearless Forecasts for 2015. They are free, but worth ten times as much.
Democrats Will Thank the Wall Street Journal.
No, Rupert Murdoch won’t change his politics. And the…